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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 1h

Olympic sports are flying the WVU flag high while football rebuilds, Geno Smith might be on borrowed time in Vegas, and Jevon Carter came up clutch for the Bulls in their preseason opener. Catch up on everything you missed in today’s Shotgun Throwdown.

While football finds its footing, WVU’s Olympic teams are stacking wins across campus

West Virginia’s Olympic sports are carrying the flag while football regroups, Geno Smith’s future in Las Vegas looks shaky, and Jevon Carter helps the Bulls open preseason with a win. Good morning — t...

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 1h

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 1h

WVU’s 2025–26 guard group is set to be a fun one. @imjoshwhitt.bsky.social breaks down who’s in the mix and how the backcourt could look this season on Unreasonable Doubt.

What to know about WVU’s 2025–26 guards and the backcourt depth chart

With the 2025–26 season approaching, WVU’s backcourt appears deeper and more defined than a year ago, anchored by Jasper Floyd at the point and a lineup full of shooters built for Ross Hodge’s system.

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 15h

this is literally one of the ditka sketch guys

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 1d

i will run my soul until it dies, the only negative about the experience is that it seems like it goes through oil *very* fast

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 3d

oh my god i am dying at the story about dillon gabriel's dad using "remember some guys" to name his kids

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 3d

It's incredible that one of the fourish P4 teams you can argue are worse than West Virginia this season is coached by a guy with six Super Bowls.

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

WVU lost 38–24 at No. 23 BYU, but the Wilkins-Hubbard combo gave us something to hang onto as the Mountaineers enter the bye 2–4 and banged up.

Mountaineers show some fight late but drop 38–24 road game to BYU

The Mountaineers couldn’t overcome a rough first half in Provo, falling to No. 23 BYU despite late signs of life on offense.

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

rest of west virginia's season is going to be a fun little balancing act of getting growth out of khalil wilkins, quarterback with actual juice, while trying to figure out how to make sure the worst offensive line i have ever seen does not kill him

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

might have found the QB with juice though!

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

even with two picks i see the vision with khalil wilkins. there is something there.

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

west virginia underwent such a tear down that it would still, six games in, be a struggle for me to name 15-20 players on this team off the top of my head and they still managed to give me a happier memory than anything neal brown did in six years by beating pitt

obnoxiously pitt ghoul 👻 🎃 👻 @opg.bsky.social · 4d

I am passively watching this game while I work on school things (look, I am not here to be judged) and every time I look up I am angrier that Pitt fucked around and lost to whatever this is

The Brawl is so dumb and we should play it every year forever.

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4d

Medically disturbed by this West Virginia defense

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

they have a third brother who is just named hank which really has to suck

grumpnet @grumpnet.bsky.social · 4d

Wait. So there’s a Tiger AND a Bear Bachmeier?

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

After Pitt it looked like that they were actually a good unit that was capable of keeping them in games and then they suddenly stopped being capable of communicating with each other basically overnight

(Which is probably just the reality of having an offense that goes three and out in 25 seconds)

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

i don't think wvu will be bad forever but their current foray into the desert of apathy is solely because of this

The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

he is an extremely flawed football coach and had an upper limit but i don't know if i'll ever forgive gordon gee and shane lyons for deciding that dana holgorsen wasn't good enough and slow playing him until he left

The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

there used to be joy

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

he is an extremely flawed football coach and had an upper limit but i don't know if i'll ever forgive gordon gee and shane lyons for deciding that dana holgorsen wasn't good enough and slow playing him until he left

The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

there used to be joy

grumpnet @grumpnet.bsky.social · 4d

@smokingmusket.bsky.social I remember being able to celebrate in-game tweets.

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 4d

there used to be joy

grumpnet @grumpnet.bsky.social · 4d

@smokingmusket.bsky.social I remember being able to celebrate in-game tweets.

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 5d

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 5d

well we got two decentish new college football video games, was a good run

charles (young QB agnostic) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 5d

welp www.rockpapershotgun.com/eas-new-owne...

EA's new owners are making "a huge bet" on generative AI cost-cutting to help repay a $20 billion loan, claims report

It isn't hugely surprising to hear that generative AI is a big part of the vision for EA's second coming as a private company, as reported by insiders.

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 7d

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West By Pod — A WVU Football Podcast

Football Podcast · Updated Weekly · Presented by The Smoking Musket, hosts Joel Bracken and Jordan Pinto take you through the good, the bad, and the ugly of WVU football. New episodes posted weekly th...

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 7d

Jordan and Joel sort through another rough weekend for WVU, the injuries piling up, and what Friday night’s road trip to No. 23 BYU could mean for the Mountaineers on this week’s episode of West By Pod

Another rough weekend… the guys break it down on West By Pod

Another tough weekend, more questions piling up, and now a Friday night showdown at BYU. Joel and Jordan dig into what’s gone wrong and what’s next for WVU.

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 7d

now I'm thinking about bronny riding lebron like a yoshi and doing the sacrificial boost jump

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7d

They should also have a special dunk only they can do where Bronny rides on Lebrons back and it counts for 10 points. The announcers will get very excited and say “they’re going for the Daddy Dunk!”

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The Smoking Musket @smokingmusket.bsky.social · 8d

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